Quotes by Photographers

I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc. Diane Arbus
Future Time Past Think Virtue Tried Head Itself Same Same Time Etc Used Keep Consciousness
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information. Don McCullin
Art Photography Thought Way Always Passing Art Form Form Information Communicating Much
When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. Don McCullin
You Please Out Shame Take Particularly Talk Message Scream Meant Portrait
There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures. Don McCullin
War Hope You Pride Looking Nothing Say About Through Pictures Know Terrible Terrible Thing Without Get Any Thing
Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur. Don McCullin
You Travel Every London Chauffeur Feels George Camera George Orwell Up Should Your Ever Street Orwell
I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of. Don McCullin
Hope Nothing Give More Take Know Proud Coming Than Role Where Bring
Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of. Don McCullin
People Down Mine Marriages Something Like Know Most Proud Am Drain
I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence. Don McCullin
You Dyslexic Fight School Bad Constant Pretty Park Beaten Had Left Up Uneducated Just Where Grew Place Which Violence
I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body. Don McCullin
Death Feeling Thousands Some Boss Like Know Pieces Terrible Got Brain Human Store Human Body Cut Body Full Images
I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with. Don McCullin
Photography School Out Photographed Photographer Guy Policeman Him Became How Accidentally Came End Stop Gangs Street Started
I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd. Don McCullin
Regret Single Possibly Would Would-Be Absurd Because Been Very Celebrated Survived Any Regrets Lucky
I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope. Don McCullin
Life Treat My Life Though Tightrope Am
I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life. Don McCullin
Life War Me Broken You Suffering People My Life Seen Few Own Sense All My Life Bad Photographing Entirely My Own Bad Thing Crumbling Empires Glimpse Least Been Blood Hit Endured Which Thing By The People Bones
I'm from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a price to pay. And I was born in 1935. So, since I've been conscious of the world, I've either been in, or been on the periphery of, a war zone. Don McCullin
War Great World Pay Every Other Bits Born Price Empire Since Like Periphery Been Stole Either War Zone England Who Conscious Zone
Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me. Don McCullin
Good Me Man Photography Pride Somewhere Important Important Things Own Young Other Fraternity Photographers Enthusiastic Take Pictures Most Editor Go Were The Most Important Wanted Convincing Show Professional Things Belongs
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange
Eyes Own Nothing Our Tell Photograph See More Perhaps Another How Permit Proves Province Than Which While Little Us
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. Dorothea Lange
Enough Photograph Picturesque Obviously
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes. Dorothea Lange
You Eyes People Words Before Own Out Direct Vocabulary Disappears Come Greatest Substitute Your
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually. Dorothea Lange
Country No Country Itself Closely Scrutinized Ever
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. Dorothea Lange
Life Enormous Visual Unattainable Practically Undertaking
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product. Dorothea Lange
Beautiful Believe Generally Call By-Product
I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today. Douglas Kirkland
Today Creative Believe Way Photographers Photoshop Darkroom Some Area Contemporary Available
I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It', and they gave me the drawings they wanted me to photograph of her up there, but she didn't really care for them that much, and ultimately they weren't even used. Douglas Kirkland
Life Me Care Gave Drawings Photograph Vancouver Angelina Jolie Something Like She Making Were Ultimately Up Did Wanted Them Much Really Used Even Her
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement. Douglas Kirkland
Women People Men Face Men And Women Somebody Skin Think Type Unrealistic Gives Perfect Misfortune Feels Because Got Refinement Esteem Flaws Many Right Levels
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls. Douglas Kirkland
Change Will Somebody Way Minor Totally Like Look Dolls Refine Want Them Plastic
Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then. Douglas Kirkland
Life Today You Reality Half Whatever Field Changed Enter Had Doing Times Than Person Did Different Century Then Much Different Person Adapt
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